is it possible to create a free website that is your VERY own?

14 years ago

You can make your site entirely of html pages. Use a free program like The SeaMonkey® Project to make them. You will own those pages and they can't be taken from you. Not aware of anywhere you can get a free domain

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RyanGillam

14 years ago

Never going to happen. The free hosting will have certain requirements in place, break them and you lose the service. They can do whatever they want to your site. The domain name will be the same too.

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HawkPrecision

14 years ago

Okay, thanks guys. I appreciate the honesty.

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Tiptopcat

14 years ago

Nothing in this world is free. Cheap, yes, but completely free with no strings attached? No.

Free sites such as Wordpress or Blogger are great places to start but you should always be thinking of moving onto something that you own and have complete control of.

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RachelLily

14 years ago

nothing is free in the world today, good luck with that. no one will do that for you for why in the world would someone give you a free website if they wont receive something in return.

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mywebwork

14 years ago

Is it possible? Sort of.

Is it practical? Nope.

Technically you COULD do this, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. But if you're a sucker for punishment try this:

- Put together a LAMP server at home using an existing computer - Ubuntu Linux makes this pretty easy. As long as you have an existing computer (doesn't have to be a very powerful one so you could use a hand-me-down) you haven't incurred any costs.

- Host it on your existing connection, hopefully you at least have a cable modem with a decent bandwidth package. Of course that's not "free" but you're using something you already have anyway so no extra cost. Set your router so TCP port 80 points at the Linux box.

- Use DynDNS and grab one of their domain names. Point it at your IP address.

And that would do it... until you start getting a reasonable level of traffic and your ISP send you a nasty notice!

Seriously why would you want to do this when domain names and hosting are so cheap?

Bill

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isaacsmithjones

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mywebwork

Is it possible? Sort of.

Is it practical? Nope.

Technically you COULD do this, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. But if you're a sucker for punishment try this:

- Put together a LAMP server at home using an existing computer - Ubuntu Linux makes this pretty easy. As long as you have an existing computer (doesn't have to be a very powerful one so you could use a hand-me-down) you haven't incurred any costs.

- Host it on your existing connection, hopefully you at least have a cable modem with a decent bandwidth package. Of course that's not "free" but you're using something you already have anyway so no extra cost. Set your router so TCP port 80 points at the Linux box.

- Use DynDNS and grab one of their domain names. Point it at your IP address.

And that would do it... until you start getting a reasonable level of traffic and your ISP send you a nasty notice!

Seriously why would you want to do this when domain names and hosting are so cheap?

Bill

Indeed, there are a few ways to get it done for free. Obviously, Bill has given you the FULL DIY version...

And then there are also other ways of gettign it done, like getting some standard free hosting, and then like a .co.nr domain (if the still do those).

But as Bill said:
"Is it practical? NOPE!"

When you get this stuff for free, you don't OWN it. Therefore, you have no (or very few) legal rights. And they can just delete your stuff, or redirect, or edit your pages when they like, and there's nothing you can do about it.

It costs like £65 to build a website that's gonna last you a full year. If your website ain't gonna make THAT back... Then it's probably not worth the effort.

Plus, on unlimited hosting, you can get like 10 websites for £100.

Sounds pretty fair to me.

But I sincerely wish you good luck if you insist on the free stuff =).

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sunray

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mywebwork

Is it possible? Sort of.

Is it practical? Nope.

Technically you COULD do this, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. But if you're a sucker for punishment try this:

- Put together a LAMP server at home using an existing computer - Ubuntu Linux makes this pretty easy. As long as you have an existing computer (doesn't have to be a very powerful one so you could use a hand-me-down) you haven't incurred any costs.

- Host it on your existing connection, hopefully you at least have a cable modem with a decent bandwidth package. Of course that's not "free" but you're using something you already have anyway so no extra cost. Set your router so TCP port 80 points at the Linux box.

- Use DynDNS and grab one of their domain names. Point it at your IP address.

And that would do it... until you start getting a reasonable level of traffic and your ISP send you a nasty notice!

Seriously why would you want to do this when domain names and hosting are so cheap?

Bill

This got me thinking.. Suppose you have a website that needs a very good VPS or even a dedicated server. In that case it would actually be practical. You'd get a good and reliable home connection that has at least 20 Mbit/s upload for 20-30 dollars a month (and this is a speed that most VPS plans only dream of...) A colocation service would cost ten times more. Of course, the connection in a data center is more reliable, they have UPS and diesel generators for blackout etc.. but still, if you want to save money in this situation, you could do it by using your own home server.

It would be especially worthwhile if your website uses much more CPU power than average. Your bandwidth may be not that much, but a hosting company would charge really a lot for the hardware you are using.

Just a hypethetical situation, that most IM-s never have to face, since IM websites are easily cached, and as such are easily hosted on cheap shared hosting plans.

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mywebwork

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sunray

This got me thinking.. Suppose you have a website that needs a very good VPS or even a dedicated server. In that case it would actually be practical. You'd get a good and reliable home connection that has at least 20 Mbit/s upload for 20-30 dollars a month (and this is a speed that most VPS plans only dream of...) A colocation service would cost ten times more. Of course, the connection in a data center is more reliable, they have UPS and diesel generators for blackout etc.. but still, if you want to save money in this situation, you could do it by using your own home server.

It would be especially worthwhile if your website uses much more CPU power than average. Your bandwidth may be not that much, but a hosting company would charge really a lot for the hardware you are using.

Just a hypothetical situation, that most IM-s never has to face, since IM websites are easily cached, and as such are easily hosted on cheap shared hosting plans.

Still not very practical.

I used to host my own sites in the 1990's, my cable company provided me a business cable modem which as far as I could tell was identical to my home cable modem except it cost 5 times more and had a static IP address. Back then this was a viable solution - but also back then domains cost 35 dollars a year and you needed to buy a 2-year minimum, and hosting plans were not cheap.

I would never even consider this today.

If I wanted to be my own host I would (and do) go with Amazon EC2, it has all the benefits of hosting yourself plus more. I can scale my servers up or down with an API call and can deploy them in locations around the globe. And as Amazon offers a year of free service (for a microinstance anyway) you could sort-of say it's free, but of course it isn't really. And I pay for domain names like everyone else.

Again to the OP (who has remained silent throughout this dialog) why would you even ask this? Domains and shared hosting are dirt cheap. It costs less to establish a website than it does to set up a lemonade stand - if you can't invest that in your business then you really have a problem.

Why even bother to ask - OP can you answer please?

Bill

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Malcolm Thomas

14 years ago

Originally Posted by HawkPrecision

I mean no wordpress or other garbage that is so called your but wordpress actually own it.. Completely yours for free.

I know there is free hosting somewhere, but I'm trying to figure out how to get a free domain.

Thanks in advance.

To get a domain name only cost about $9 bucks. You can probably find some Godaddy promo coupons around the web somewhere. But truthfully... If you're unwilling to invest $10 to get yourself a domain name, then internet marketing is probably not for you.

It takes money, to make money.

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JasonBennet

14 years ago

You will want to have control over your asset if you are serious about doing this internet business full time. If you are serious about having your internet business, you will want to invest some money on some tool and resources that will help get your business growing.

There is no Free things in this world and anything that is free comes with a catch. Keep going forward and don't give up

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